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New Meeting Announcement: 10th Annual NENIC Symposium, May 11, 2012 in Waltham, MA

For the most up to date information about NIWG and NI, visit the NIWG Communities Page.

The theme for this year's conference is: Nurses Creating Change. 

Featured Speakers include:

• Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, FAAN
• Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, FAAN
• Diane J. Skiba, PhD, FAAN, FACMI
• Sarah Collins, RN, PhD  

For more information about the symposium and the speakers, and to register: www.nenic.org

Symposium Brochure: http://data.memberclicks.com/site/nenic/2012_Symposium_Brochure_v3.pdf 

International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Health (ICICTH) 2012 Call for Papers 

For details please visit http://www.ineag.gr/ICICTH/index.php    

Important Dates:  

• Deadline for Abstract Submission: April 01, 2012.  
• Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2012.  
• Deadline for Registration & Submission of Extended Papers: May 15, 2012.  

AMIA2012 Call for Participation

AMIA has released information about submissions for the 2012 meeting in Chicago November 3 - November 7.

In addition to previous submission types, there are several new categories of submission: One-page podium abstracts, State of the practice in informatics, Tutorials, and A special category for AMIA’s Working Groups.

For more information visit amia.org/amia2012

Proposals are due 15 March 2012.

MIE 2012 - extension of deadline to 30.1.2012

Below is the latest email from the MIE 2012 SPC-team.

The deadline for submission of papers and posters to the 24th European Medical Informatics Conference - MIE2012 - in Pisa, August 26th -29th, 2012 has been extended from 15.01.2012 to 30.01.2012 23:59 UTC.

We invite you to submit a broad range of contributions related to the latest achievements in eHealth, biomedical and health informatics. The specific focus for the MIE2012 conference is the various roles of eHealth in pursuing benefits seen in quality of life for patients, health-care personnel, citizens and the society.

We encourage you to submit a contribution about methodologies and applications, successful stories or lessons learned from not so successful projects in the health-care domain.

For more information please consult www.mie2012.it Any questions concerning the submission, please use spc_mie2012@online-registry.net

Kind regards from The MIE 2012 SPC-team 

List of NIH Opportunities

Below are several links shared by Dr. Melinda L. Jenkins, PhD, FNP, Scientific Review Officer with the Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies Integrated Review Group at the National Institutes of Health. She mentioned about looking for reviewers for informatics and grant applications during this year's NIWG business meeting. If you are interested, here are some useful links suggested by her.

NIH Office of Extramural Research information about Grants:  http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm

For people who want to become reviewers for grant applications, here is a good link:  http://cms.csr.nih.gov/PeerReviewMeetings/StudySectionReviewers/ServiceasReviewers.htm.Dr. Jenkins is also looking for reviewers for informatics- related research and small business applications.  Seehttp://cms.csr.nih.gov/PeerReviewMeetings/CSRIRGDescriptionNew/HDMIRG/BCHI.htm and   http://cms.csr.nih.gov/PeerReviewMeetings/CSRIRGDescriptionNew/HDMIRG/HDM11.htm#HDM-11

New Meetings:1) AMIA 10x10, 9 Jan 2012

• Presented by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing
• Goal: to examine the implications of informatics for practice, including nursing, public health and healthcare in general

• View the detailed course description and register for the event at: http://www.amia.org/education/10x10-courses/10x10-umn/course-description

2) MIE 2012, 26-29 Aug 2012 in Pisa, Italy

Below is information regarding MIE 2012!

• Theme: Quality of Life through Quality of Information, offering the challenge to contributors to share experiences in the field of Medical and Health Informatics.  

• Based on the theme, three main streams have been identified in the Conference programme:
  • Papers, Posters, Panels, Workshops, Short Communications, and Tutorials
  • 'Village of the Future' which will try to mash-up all kind of developments to empower citizens, patients and care providers.
  • Commercial stream for Industrial and SME participants with the exhibition and other contributions.
• The Call for Papers: You have until
  • January 15th to submit Papers and Posters that will be indexed in MEDLINE
  • March 1st to submit Workshops, Panels, Short Communications, and Tutorials
  • April 15th for 'Village of the future' proposals.
  • For all submissions please visit the MIE2012 Conference website: http://www.mie2012.it
• Organised by the Italian Association for Medical Informatics (AIIM), the Italian eHealth Community, and EFMI in the wonderful town of Pisa from August 26th to 29th, 2012

Thanks for all those who attended AMIA 2011!

This year's meeting was great! Many thanks to those who organized NIWG events.

We congratulate the newly elected leadership:

• Chair elect: Patricia Dykes
• Secretary: Juliana Brixley
• Member at large: Laura Heermann Langford
• IMIA rep: Diane Skiba
• Student Rep: Kathy Johnson